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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I'd love to see a listing of the first top ten in each category. Is it possible we could see that list? Distrowatch only gives the top desktop distro being downloaded but does nothing for any application.

It would help a lot of people who wish to find good open source games or office aps if we had that list.

Slackware is a back to basics and no bullcrap Linux distro. Most of it is designed around FreeBSD style scripting and efficiency without redundancy unless the user wants to add it. I really makes you become an administrator of the system having you learn about fundamentals of the system rather than being point-click-and-go.

I think, the future of Linux for the average user is very much bound to the "point-click-and-go" majority. I know nothing of slackware but the popularity of Ubuntu and Mint are
telling something. Regards

I think, the future of Linux for the average user is very much bound to the "point-click-and-go" majority. I know nothing of slackware but the popularity of Ubuntu and Mint are
telling something. Regards

Example Server:
Security some points...
Reliability some points...
Performance some points...
...
Than Desktop:
Simplicity some points...
Mobility (hardware support)...
Security
...
Maybe Slackware best server or close with RedHAT/CentOS and the oposite, Ubuntu for Desktop.
DBMS:
What makes a good dbms? Can MySQL overrun PostgreSQL as DBMS? Ok MongoDB as NoSQL.
To be honest I like MySQL as administrator, it is so easy to administer but no way it can compete with PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL the only one in the competition that can compare with Oracle.
BTW where is CUBRID?

I hope I did not offend anyone I simply am trying to point that there have to be criteria to vote for. We users should vote regarding them, since this is the best and the most serious forum ever. We users don't want to ruin that reputation.

The problem with the Debian(Ubuntu) rebranded systems is "point-click-and-go" segregates you the administrator from the core elements of the system, especially the important stuff. Having everything GUI based leaves no room for "learning" factors when it comes to problems from initialization scripts having corrupted settings, settings that break things, or simply a package that is inherently bad software conflicting with another package.

Think about this...

If you rely on X11 and X11 goes down or the package gets corrupted or broken, how do you reset it, recover from it, or restore it back to defaults if it's all "point-click-and-go" and you know nothing of how to set it up from scratch? You have to manually using the command prompt, remove, rebuild and/or reinstall the package, then rebuild the initialization script, sometimes from scratch.

Linux was built to be a dynamic-modular system with each component independent of enough of everything unless needed, not static-core system that's fully integrated into all it's many parts like Windows.

On Linux if SDL kerplodes, you can work around it and rebuild a package to is tuned to your system probably within a few minutes, but on Windows, if DirectX kerplodes, you might end up reinstalling Windows or sepending a few hours while the Install Disk repairs your installation.

Point-Click-And-Go teaches you NOTHING. I used PC&G Linux systems for many years with disappointing results. Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, and even Kubuntu, and honestly, I felt alienated from my own system. To me, Slackware lets me have control, lets me decide what ticks and what tocks, if this goes here or that goes there, and I know it will work each and every time.

The first time I installed Slackware, it was different yet welcoming. Patrick's Slackware User Manual is so easy to read and follow, yet it teaches you so much it's utter brilliance. Honestly, try Slackware sometime for a good six weeks and compare it to the other PC&G distros.

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